diff --git a/python-cachy.changes b/python-cachy.changes
index e61fb35..5fc87e5 100644
--- a/python-cachy.changes
+++ b/python-cachy.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Dec 19 02:07:36 UTC 2022 - Steve Kowalik <steven.kowalik@suse.com>
+
+- Add patch support-pymemcache.patch:
+  * Use pymemcache rather than other clients. 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Feb 21 09:35:23 UTC 2022 - Andreas Schneider <asn@cryptomilk.org>
 
diff --git a/python-cachy.spec b/python-cachy.spec
index 6810c15..10d6361 100644
--- a/python-cachy.spec
+++ b/python-cachy.spec
@@ -23,21 +23,21 @@ Version:        0.3.0
 Release:        0
 Summary:        A caching library for Python
 License:        MIT
-Group:          Development/Languages/Python
 URL:            https://github.com/sdispater/cachy
 Source:         https://files.pythonhosted.org/packages/source/c/cachy/cachy-%{version}.tar.gz
+Patch0:         support-pymemcache.patch
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module fakeredis >= 0.10.2}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module flexmock >= 0.10.2}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module msgpack-python >= 0.5}
+BuildRequires:  %{python_module pymemcache >= 4.0}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest >= 3.5}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module pytest-mock >= 1.9}
-BuildRequires:  %{python_module python-memcached >= 1.59}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module redis >= 2.10}
 BuildRequires:  %{python_module setuptools}
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  python-rpm-macros
 Recommends:     python-msgpack-python >= 0.5
-Recommends:     python-python-memcached >= 1.59
+Recommends:     python-pymemcache >= 4.0
 Recommends:     python-redis >= 2.10
 BuildArch:      noarch
 %python_subpackages
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ BuildArch:      noarch
 Cachy provides a caching library.
 
 %prep
-%setup -q -n cachy-%{version}
+%autosetup -p1 -n cachy-%{version}
 
 %build
 %python_build
diff --git a/support-pymemcache.patch b/support-pymemcache.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..897edac
--- /dev/null
+++ b/support-pymemcache.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+Index: cachy-0.3.0/cachy/stores/memcached_store.py
+===================================================================
+--- cachy-0.3.0.orig/cachy/stores/memcached_store.py
++++ cachy-0.3.0/cachy/stores/memcached_store.py
+@@ -1,12 +1,9 @@
+ # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+ 
+ try:
+-    from pylibmc import memcache
++    from pymemcache.client import base as memcache
+ except ImportError:
+-    try:
+-        import memcache
+-    except ImportError:
+-        memcache = None
++    memcache = None
+ 
+ from ..contracts.taggable_store import TaggableStore
+